If you love sharks and want to save them, please leave them alone...Fran - Instructor / TeacherMarch 10, 2008 at 07:33:15What these beautiful animals do not need is another photographer or thrill-seeking tourist butting into their space and screaming
"Hey, I'm here to save you! Oh and yes, also promote myself as a world-renowned shark photographer with my very own web site where people can fill their shopping carts with my really cool shark photos". Sharks are sharks, not models nor pets with cute names to be manipulated to perform and pose for greedy, self-aggrandizing photographers. And yes, they kill humans. Fine — no problem. As Freeman Washington wrote in the CDNN
editorial "PADI Project Aware:
Eco Friendly or Environmental Enemy", "You don't need to force sharks or orcas or whales or lions or sea otters or bears or alligators or manatees or albatross or any other animal to perform in order for us to realize these animals are worth protecting. We don't need to pretend that sharks or lions or orcas are friendly or cute. We can fear them, respect them and want to protect them for the awe-inspiring, natural-born killers they really are, rather than the force-fed circus performers (the dive industry) wants to turn them into..." Exactly.
The biggest lie promulgated by the shark feeding industry is that one billion people eat shark fin soup because they hate sharks and want to revenge the deaths of a few shark attack victims. In fact, they eat sharks for the same reason underwater photographers and others eat salmon, trout, tuna and other endangered fish species: they think it is delicious. | 
